✦ LIBER ✦
The perihelion advance according to a post-NEWTONian gravitational law with logarithmic correction term
✍ Scribed by J. P. Mücket; H.-J. Treder
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Volume
- 298
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-6337
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
By a gravitational potential Φ′(r) = − G~0~M/r (I + α + α In r) with |α|≪ 1 a motion δφ of the perihelion of a planet is resulting which is neither depending on the central‐mass M nor on the semi‐axis of the KEPLER‐ellipse δφ ≈︁ ‐ απ. Therefore, |α| must be smaller than 10^−8^.